With only tweaks made to next year’s regulations, Raikkonen believes they have something to work from.

“It’s not a disaster, that’s for sure,” he is quoted as saying by crash.net. “Otherwise there would not be the results that the team has achieved so far. Obviously we know the areas where we have to work and it’s a bit everywhere; we are not really bad anywhere but we are not fantastic either anywhere.

“So it’s kind of a bit everywhere. It’s a reliable car, in some places it works better and in some conditions it’s better but we have a lot of places where we know that if we can improve those then it can make a big, big difference and improve the whole thing a lot.”